[Installation] Sinatra gem install hangs at ri documentation

[rubyFeedback]

Whenever I try to install the sinatra gem, the first install hangs during:

"Installing ri documentation for sinatra-2.0.7"

I manually interrupt it, then do it again, and then it works.

I have no idea what causes it, but all the other gems and their ri
documentation do not have this issue.

I believe that there must be something special for sinatra documentation
done that causes this behaviour since I do not see it at any other gem.

It may be difficult to find out, but I am just reporting here to let you guys
know anyway.

[horaciob]

Hi there looks like *.md files are the problem

Now Sinatra it's doing this:

hbranciforte@bcnl-hbranciforte:ruby/sinatra ‹handle_null_byte_when_serving_static_files*›$ rdoc  --line-numbers --inline-source --title Sinatra --main README.rdoc --encoding=UTF-8
option --inline-source is deprecated: source code is now always inlined
Parsing sources...
100% [255/255]  test/yajl_test.rb

Generating Darkfish format into /Users/hbranciforte/labs/ruby/sinatra/doc...

  Files:      255

  Classes:    120 ( 89 undocumented)
  Modules:     61 ( 36 undocumented)
  Constants:   41 ( 40 undocumented)
  Attributes:  33 ( 29 undocumented)
  Methods:    718 (576 undocumented)

  Total:      973 (770 undocumented)
   20.86% documented

  Elapsed: 297.0s

and it takes 5 minutes to generate

if you try this

rdoc  --line-numbers --inline-source --title Sinatra --main README.rdoc --encoding=UTF-8 --exclude=.*\.md

Excluding *.md files it will takes only 3 seconds.

I will try to figure out how to speedup, but I would ask if we need to add or we can exclude them on the gemspec

[ty-shaikh]

Temporary fix could be to use: gem install sinatra --no-ri --no-rdoc or gem install sinatra --no-document if Ruby is newer than version 2.5

[aaronelliotross]

+1 this bit me too

[epergo]

This was already fixed in #1671 however new version of Sinatra including the change is yet to be released so you will only notice the improvement if you use master.